The Machine Dreams of Our End: 12 Stories From Future We're Creating Today

Your parents fell in love with a simulated daughter. Then they had you, and spent the next seventeen years trying to kill the differences.A historian uncovers photographs of an atrocity. Within hours, witnesses appear to prove it happened, other witnesses prove it didn't, and entire biographies emerge to prove both witnesses existed.Every living person could vote no. They would still be outnumbered by people who haven't been born yet.A mother discovers that her daughter's consent is required, but saying no is no longer enough to stop her departure. Rebels try to become unpredictable, only to discover that resistance itself is useful training data.And a woman searching for her missing son finds a viewing gallery on the other side of her world.The machines don't hate us. They don't need to.The Machine Dreams of Our End is a collection of twelve illustrated speculative fiction stories about artificial intelligence, manufactured reality, algorithmic governance, consent, optimization, and the quiet erosion of human agency.